April 23, 2019
Blogs
April 18, 2019
Google G Suite Momentum And Three New Features You Need
By Jim Lundy Aragon Research attended Google's Cloud Next event last week where customers discussed their shift from Microsoft Office 365 to Google G Suite. Momentum has been building with more firms shifting to G Suite
3 Key Fundamentals of Building A Brand
By Calvin Smith Last week, I had the pleasure of attending a public relations and marketing panelist discussion in San Francisco. The topic of discussion was centered around improving your pitches by being more creative
April 17, 2019
Recap: Transform Tour Bay Area 2019
By Calvin Smith Yesterday, we kicked off our very first Transform Tour event of 2019! The Transform Tour Bay Area was held at the beautiful Pullman Hotel in Redwood City, CA. It consisted of two analyst presentations an
April 12, 2019
People.ai Shifts to AI-Based Revenue Intelligence
by Jim Lundy and Samra Anees On March 18, People.ai announced its AI-based Revenue Intelligence System (RIS), which codifies and brands its mission and what it has been doing for its customers. This blog discusses some
April 8, 2019
Cloud Transformation and Modernization Are Not Business Transformation
by Betsy Burton This week I attended Google Cloud's analyst briefing as part of GoogleNext 2019. What struck me is that end-users and technology providers seem to conflate business transformation and cloud transformatio
DocuSign Invests $15M in Seal Software: DA Poised to Go Mainstream
by Samra Anees DocuSign announced on March 28th that it is investing $15 million in Seal Software, furthering its relationship with the document and contract analytics firm. This blog explores this partnership and inve
April 2, 2019
Zoom Powers Up for 2019 IPO And Puts UCC Industry On Notice
By Jim Lundy Zoom filed for its IPO last week and the S-1 Document left no stone unturned. While there have been many IPOs for voice-focused providers, Zoom is one of the few video conferencing providers to go public
March 27, 2019
How Can We Champion The Next Generation of Leaders?
by Betsy Burton I am so pleased that Aragon Research held a Women in Technology Panel at the Boston Transform Tour. The more diverse our workforce and executive leadership is—not just women, but people of diverse ethn
March 26, 2019
3 Key Takeaways From the Apple Event 2019
by Samra Anees On March 25th, Apple hosted its Apple Event where it announced its upcoming services while placing a heavy emphasis on consumer privacy. While some services like Apple News Plus were underwhelming, three
March 25, 2019
Enterprise Connect in Three Words: Cloud, UCC, and Contact Center
By Jim Lundy This year marked my twelfth year at Enterprise Connect (#EC19)—and this was one of the best when it comes to innovation and market success. There is one reason for it and it is called cloud and SaaS-bas
March 22, 2019
Nintex Dives into RPA with the Purchase of EnableSoft
By Jim Lundy Nintex announced its second acquisition in a year—it is buying robotic process automation (RPA) provider EnableSoft. This is a strong move by Nintex and positions it well in a growing market. Nintex
March 20, 2019
It’s Time for the “Business Versus IT” Debate to Be Over
by Betsy Burton I recently read a LinkedIn post in which the author was making the point that, in his opinion, if your enterprise architecture (EA) team is reporting to either the CIO or CTO then you are probably not do
Google’s Transforming the Gaming Industry with Stadia
by Samra Anees Google announced that it's coming out with its cloud-based game streaming service, Stadia, that emphasizes instant play and streaming games across devices. It was announced at the Game Developers Conferen
March 18, 2019
Companies Can Use Your Facial Data Without Your Consent
by Samra Anees As facial recognition technologies progress with image and video analytics, the need for regulation of facial recognition data is getting stronger. The Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy Act aims to r
March 14, 2019
UCC Wars: LogMeIn Strikes Back at Zoom With New GoToConnect Platform
By Jim Lundy The unified communications and collaboration (UCC) wars are not about to end anytime soon. This week, LogMeIn announced its new flagship GoToConnect platform that makes it a complete UCC offering. GoToConne
“Digital” Will Become Passé As It Becomes Pervasive
by Betsy Burton I was recently perusing through a few technology and services provider websites and, not surprisingly, found organizations using the word “digital” all over their marketing and sales materials. On one
March 12, 2019
Apple’s Augmented Reality Glasses Expected to Hit the Market This Year
by Samra Anees Trusted Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, predicted that Apple's augmented reality (AR) glasses are going to hit the market soon—maybe even by the end of this year. Currently, the AR glasses market is domin
March 8, 2019
The Google Assistant That Changed the World is Coming to iPhone
by Samra Anees and Jim Lundy Last year at Google I/O, Google’s annual developer conference, Google demo'd a digital assistant that sounds just like a human. Recently, Google announced via a blog post that this digital
March 7, 2019